ELECTION NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 7246, 24 June 1887, Page 2

ELECTION NOTES.

VVc are informed on reliable authority that Sir Robert Stout has consented to be nominated for the constituency of Napier, and has promised to sit for that constituency if elected.

Mr Hodge (Mr Pyke's libeller) is out for one of the Auckland City seats ; Mr Adam Porter for Eden ; Mr Reader Wood will most probably fight Mr Dargaville for Marsden, and Mr Seymour George be pitted against Mr Moss for Parnell; Mr John Lundon is the Ministerial candidate for the Bay of Islands ; and Mr G. M. Russell the Ministerial candidate for the Waikato.

Mr F. Arkwright, formerly a member of the Imperial Parliament, will be a candidate for Rangitikei in opposition to Messrs Bruce and Stevens. Mr Tanner and Mr Sutton will contest the two Waikawa (Hawkt's Bay) seats.

About 100 of Mr James Allen's friends and supporters met at his house yesterday evening, and resolved to do all in their power to secure his return. Mr William Owen was appointed general chairman of committee, and Mr J. C. Morris honorary secretary. Sub-committees were formed, and an active systematic canvass agreed on. Mr G. F. Richardson, M.H.R. for Mataura, who was present, expressed his sympathy with Mr Allen's candidature,

Mr D. J. Napier, solicitor, has announced his intention of contesting one of the Auckland seats.

Dr Cole is announced for the new Wellington seat, but as yet he has not declared his views.

Sir George Grey is to address the electors of Auckland City East to-night. An important provision in the Electoral Laws Amendment Act passed last session is that an elector who removes from the district for which he is enrolled shall still he entitled to a vote for that district, provided that his name does not also appear on the roll for the district in which he is living at the time of the election.

The registration of electors continues to be made on a somewhat extensive scale. Those who have been instrumental in putting these additional names on the roll appeartobe satisfied in their own minds that they can depend on a blind block vote from these new electors in favor of any candidate whom they may choose to work. Unless we very materially mistake the intelligence and judgment of the electors, they will refuse to be polled like sheep, till they have had an opportunity of hearing the addresses of the various candidates.